I don’t like this type of article. WSJ, the newspaper of record for the crony capitalists, is “concerned” about obamacare. How touching.
So long as we limit ourselves to the alternatives and strategies proposed by those who have a vested interest in our defeat, we will lose.
What we should be thinking about is not how we’re going to fight obamacare, but how we’ll get around it. Things that individuals can do to render it irrelevant or as irrelevant as it can be made. You also may have heard these things called SOLUTIONS. They rarely come from politicians and their ilk.
On that note, let me propose a SOLUTION that might work for some people. The health sharing ministries. There are 5 or so that operate on Biblical principles. They are EXEMPT from thr obamacare tax. They also don’t contribute a dime to obamacare or its cohorts.
I think we can do both. Qualifying for a hardship exemption is one way to get around it. It really comes down to knowing what the rules are how to take advantage of them. People that receive insurance through their employer also need to know the rules, because it could effect them if they lose their coverage. An option for someone at my age (upper 50's) might be to reduce income to become eligible for subsidies. Another option would be to raise or lower income to get into the doughnut hole above the 400% poverty level. If insurance costs more than 8% of income then a hardship is granted. You can then go without or purchase a catastrophic policy.